Use your vote and you'll die, Taliban tell Afghan women

Fawzia Mohamadi, 30, another victim of the bombing, said male passers-by shouted as the bus burned. "They were saying, 'Let them die'," she said from her hospital bed, where she is recovering from burns to her left leg. "They were shouting, 'These are women begging for America's dollars. Don't help them'. They were holding up our burning sandals and clothes and shouting."

All over the eastern province of Nangahar, the capital of which is Jalalabad, women are being threatened for participating in the elections. Only three years after the fall of the Taliban, women have been given the right to vote and stand for public office, and the backlash has been swift, said Mrs Mojadeddi.

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